On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Greg Weber
How about being backwards-compatible friendly by adding a new function with the friendly behavior, adding a deprecation notice to the existing function, and putting the existing function under a new name that signifies the -rf? That would put me at a +1
To be honest, that it followed symlinks in the first place is arguably a severe bug and also violates people's expectations. I suspect most existing users would either be (a) applying it to something they created with a known safe structure, so the change is irrelevant, or (b) horrified at the unexpected lurking bug. Functions like this should not follow symlinks. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net